Oil industry pumped cash into lobbying as fight over energy bill raged
During a pitched battle over climate change legislation this year, the petroleum industry dramatically ramped up its spending on lobbying, new disclosures show.More than a dozen oil companies or...
View ArticleCalifornia's Paris delegation: Who's going and who's paying?
California may not be a member of the United Nations, but it will have a heavy footprint in December at the world summit on climate change in Paris. Lawmakers attending the summit Eight Democratic...
View ArticleCalifornia revs up for Paris climate-change summit
In the wonky world of climate change, California's presence at the United Nations summit in Paris next month is expected to be a star-studded affair. There will be an actual movie star, former Gov....
View ArticleBrown readies to take spot on global climate stage: 'They're not calling him...
Gov. Jerry Brown was deep into a two-hour meeting on climate change with some of California's top scientists when he interjected a highly technical and much more personal question. He wanted to...
View ArticleBrown pushes cities, states to set tough environmental targets
More than a year and a half ago, Franz Untersteller, the environment secretary for the German state of Baden-Württemberg, stepped into a meeting with Gov. Jerry Brown in Sacramento. Untersteller was...
View ArticleIn Paris, Schwarzenegger and Brown unite to seek climate action
It was like the debut of an environmentally themed buddy cop drama, with a political odd couple uniting against a common foe. In one chair was California's governor, Jerry Brown, the cerebral Democrat...
View ArticleChina and the world turn to California for climate change expertise
China's top negotiator at the United Nations summit on climate change practically gushed as he described his country's relationship with California. During a speech Monday, Xie Zhenhua described Gov....
View ArticleCalifornia billionaire Tom Steyer has rare access and a big megaphone on...
Sitting under a soaring ornamental ceiling in a museum near the Seine, Gov. Jerry Brown gave thanks for the political backdrop that has enabled California's tougher environmental rules. "If it weren't...
View ArticleCalifornia falling short in push for more clean vehicles
Even as California sells itself as an environmental success story during the United Nations summit here, the state is in danger of failing to meet its own targets for getting clean vehicles on the...
View ArticleJerry Brown in Paris: California governor goes deep on climate change and...
California Gov. Jerry Brown had a song stuck in his head, and he wanted to hear it. Standing outside a conference center shortly after giving a speech on climate change, he asked for someone to play...
View ArticleCalifornia's cap-and-trade program faces daunting hurdles to avoid collapse
The linchpin of California's climate change agenda, a program known as cap and trade, has become mired in legal, financial and political troubles that threaten to derail the state's plans to curb...
View ArticleCalifornia lawmakers unplug the state's electric car program
California's electric-car rebate program, which has helped put thousands of Teslas, Nissan Leafs and Chevrolet Volts on the road, is running out of money. In the state budget passed earlier this...
View ArticleA grand bargain? Gov. Jerry Brown in talks with oil companies about climate...
Gov. Jerry Brown's administration has been talking directly with oil companies in hopes of reaching a consensus on extending California's landmark climate programs, opening a back channel with an...
View ArticleWith climate legislation stalling, Jerry Brown looks to potential fight at...
The battle to extend California's climate policies could grind to a halt this year, but Gov. Jerry Brown plans to continue pressing the issue before his final term in office ends - even if that...
View ArticleCalifornia's regional electricity grid plan on hold
Gov. Jerry Brown's plan for a regional electricity grid is being put on hold this year, and lawmakers are no longer expected to consider a measure that would allow California to partner with five...
View ArticleClean tech leaders try to put a business-friendly spin on climate change...
Mark Bauhaus used to make a point of avoiding Sacramento. Like other technology executives, he saw state politics as nothing more than a drag on Silicon Valley's freewheeling innovation. Yet this...
View ArticleWhile cap-and-trade funds stay mired in debate, businesses feel the hit
A look at how one Shasta County town's workforce may shrink without a portion of California's cap and trade revenues that its local legislator has been asking for in Sacramento.
View ArticleA big question complicating the climate debate: Are current policies only...
In early 2015, Democratic members of the state Assembly huddled in a Cal State Sacramento conference room to hear Mary Nichols, chair of the powerful Air Resources Board, explain how her agency...
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